The retail media agency consolidation trend is still going with the announcement on Tuesday that indie shop Acadia has acquired fellow ecommerce marketplace ad agency Crush.
As most generative AI search engines focus on general adoption and subscription licenses, Perplexity AI is zagging toward advertising and commerce applications.
Wonder Group, a restaurant tech and meal delivery company, snapped up Blue Apron in 2023, Grubhub a year later, then Tastemade earlier this month. Tastemade brings new capabilities, says Wonder Chief Growth Officer Daniel Shlossman. But it’s an important step in the company’s plan to become a 360-degree advertising player.
AI and machine learning services have come a long way in the past couple years, and these changes have introduced a whole new vocabulary for marketers trying to get a handle on how products like PMax work.
“There were some lessons early on,” Dawn Brodehl, Tillamook’s manager of omni-shopper marketing, tells AdExchanger of the company’s expansion to a national brand. For one thing, did you know that ice cream and dairy products can explode when they’re shipped over the Rocky Mountains?
Target reported $649 million in revenue from its Roundel advertising business in 2024, up about 25% from 2023, during its Q4 and full-year earnings report on Tuesday.
Today’s roundup deals with an uncomfortable topic that, at some point, retail media companies must reckon with. It’s not transparency, or MFA, or standardization. It is the issue of rising return rates.
Walmart’s ad business is starting to click. The company generated $4.4 billion in global ad revenue in 2024, up 27% year-over-year, the company disclosed in its latest earnings report on Thursday.
2025 is officially the year that GLP-1 solidifies itself as a force in the advertising world.
Last week, at an industry event hosted by RTB House, a group of retailers took the stage to discuss their plans (and frustrations) with data-driven advertising this year.
